(St. Louis, MO) – Career highs were as prevalent as Donald Trump jokes this week in the Ohio Valley and Missouri Valley Conferences. Because of those outstanding performances the competition for weekly conference awards was stiff.
Ohio Valley Conference
Tennessee State’s Tahjere McCall became the first multiple winner of the OVC’s ‘Player of the Week’ award. The senior guard topped the 20-point mark in two of the Tiger’s three games, including a career high 27 points in TSU’s victory over Southeast Missouri.
McCall won the award during the first week of the season and had to edge Belmont’s Dylan Windler who scored a career high 23 points on Sunday, and Eastern Illinois’ Montell Goodwin, who twice led the Panthers in scoring including a career high 23 points against Morehead State.
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Tulane transfer Kajon Mack is this week’s ‘Newcomer of the Week’. The Tennessee Tech senior averaged 16.5 points per game for the resurgent Golden Eagles (7-11, 3-0). Mack averaged five rebounds and 3.5 assists last week.
Asante Gist scored a career high 25 points and matched a career high six assists against Southern Illinois Edwardsville and averaged 22.5 points per game for the week. The Eastern Kentucky guard won the OVC’s ‘Freshman of the Week’ award for the fourth time.
Missouri Valley Conference
Loyola’s Milton Doyle recorded a career high 35 points during the Ramblers’ victory over Bradley. That might not have been his best game of the week. He scored 13 points, grabbed eight rebounds and handed out eight assists against Northern Iowa earlier in the week.
Doyle won the Valley’s ‘Player of the Week’ award, nosing out Illinois State’s MiKyle McIntosh who scored a career high 31 points this past weekend and scored 52 points in last week’s two contests.
Wichita State’s Landry Shamet is this week’s ‘Newcomer of the Week’. The redshirt freshman averaged 14 points per game, including a 17-point performance at Northern Iowa where Shamet hit five three-pointers.
Shamet edged, among others, Indiana State’s Jordan Barnes who scored a career high 14 points.
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